Automotive unit



Dec. 18, 1956 P. FONER 2, 7

AUTOMOTIVE UNIT Filed Feb. 16, 1954 INVENTOR Pym/ FbA/ER ATTORNEY UnitedStates Patent AUTOMO'I'EVE UNIT Philip Foner, Newark, N. 3'.

Application February 16, 1954, Serial No. 410,538

2 Claims. (CI. 81-35) This invention relates to automotive units andmore particularly to a device designed, for example, for the separationof leaf springs. The device of the invention is designed to facilitatesuch separation of members and may further provide for the lubricationthereof, a single compact unit achieving these ends in a convenient andhighly efiicient and error-proof manner pursuant to the invention.

The device embodies novel features of construction and operation whichare more particularly described below.

These and other advantageous objects, which will appear from thedrawings and from the description hereinafter, are accomplished by thestructure of my invention, of which an embodiment is illustrated in thedraw ings. It will be apparent, from a consideration of said drawingsand the following description, that the invention may be embodied inother forms suggested thereby, and such other forms as come within thescope of the appended claims are to be considered within the scope andpurview of the instant invention.

In the drawings, Fig. 1 is a perspective View of an automotive unitembodying the invention, Fig. 2 is another view of a similar formthereof and Fig. 3 is a fragmentary sectional view thereof, taken online 33 of Fig. 2 and Fig 4. is a top plan view taken on line 4-4 ofFig. 1.

As shown in the drawings, the device of this invention is adapted forseparation of members, for example, the leaves of the spring S or othermember to be separated, and comprises a base member having a verticalguide 11 secured to one end thereof and adapted to abut one of the sideedges of the member S to be separated. A hearing 12 is mounted on saidbase member, for example, by means of a plate 13. A bar 14 is movablypositioned in said bearing. Said bar and bearing are provided withcomplementary threaded portions or other suitable means for controlledmovement of the bar in the hearing. A pointed separation finger 15 issecured to one end of the bar, as for an example, by a universal jointconnection 16 shown in Fig. 1, or providing finger 15 with a flangedextension 20 shown in Fig. 2 which has an aperture 21 to freely receivethe pin 22 which is threaded into the free end of the bar 14.

Parts shown in Fig. 2 which generally correspond with those shown inFig. 1 are indicated by the same reference characters with a primenumber.

Finger 15 is provided with a pointed end 23 adapted, on movement of thebar 14 for positioning the device as shown in Figs. 1 and 2 in registrywith the spring S to pry apart elements of the spring or other object tobe separated, as shown in Fig. 3. The finger 15 is provided with meansto guide the latter for movement in a plane parallel with the axis ofbase member 10. Said means may constitute as shown in Fig. 1, adepending arm 24 so proportioned as to extend below the base plate 10and engage an edge 25 thereof. The portion of bar 14 extending from theplate 13 is preferably provided with a head 26 which may be of hexagonalor other convenient outline for engagement by a tool if it is desired toprovide considerable pressure thereto. Suflicient pressure may normallybe exerted for rotation of bar 14 by providing a handle such as a bar orrod 27 passed through an aperture in the bar 14 or otherwise securedthereto.

Rotation of the bar 14 is in the direction of the arrow 17 in Fig. 1;the arm 24 will tend to engage the edge 25 of the base member 10 andthereby preclude accidental rotation of the finger 15 responsive to therotation of the bar 14.

The finger 15 and its extended pointed end 23 may be provided with anopening 28 therein and a grease fitting 29 may be connected to saidopening so that when the device is used as shown in Fig. 3 to pry apartthe leaves of a spring, grease or other lubricant may be readily appliedthrough the opening 28 and intermediate the spring leaves so separated.In the form shown in Fig. 2, the arm 24' of finger 15 is so proportionedthat it extends below the base member 10 and is provided at the lowerend thereof with a U-shaped bracket 30 straddling the base plate 10' andengaging the marginal edges 31 thereof.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent is:

1. An automotive device for separation of spring leaves comprising anelongated base member having a longitudinal edge, a flat guide membersecured to and extending upwardly perpendicular to one end thereof andadapt ed to bear against and abut one of the side edges of the springleaves to be separated, with the base member positioned below saidleaves to be separated, a bearing on said base member, a bar membermovably positioned in said bearing, complementary means on said barmember and bearing for controlled movement of said bar member toward andaway from the guide member, a pointed separation finger, means to securethe finger to the end of said bar member for movement, on movement ofthe bar, intermediate the spring leaves to be separated, and arm meansdepending from the finger abutting a longitudinal edge of the basemember to guide the finger for movement in a plane parallel to the axisof said longitudinal edge of the base member.

2. An automotive device for separation of spring leaves comprising anelongated base member having longitudinal edges, a fiat guide membersecured to and extending upwardly perpendicular to one end thereof andadapted to bear against and abut one of the side edges of the springleaves to be separated, with the base member positioned below saidleaves to be separated, a bearing on said base member, a bar memberthreadedly engaging said bearing and adapted, on rotation, to move insaid bearing toward and away from the guide member, a pointed separationfinger, means to secure the finger to the end of said bar member fornon-rotational movement, on rotational movement of the bar member,intermediate the spring leaves to be separated, and arm means secured toand depending from the finger at an angle to the axis of said bar memberengaging a longitudinal edge,

of said base member to guide the finger for movement in a plane parallelto the axis of the base member on rotation of said bar member.

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